Understanding Utility Business Services

Utility business services are generic, reusable services that perform standard operations. Utility business services are called by other business services to process information that is associated with the calling service. Utility business services eliminate the need to write the same code in a number of business services, and they ensure that a specific process is performed in a uniform manner.

The utility business services follow the rules, best practices, and guidelines discussed in this methodology guide. Utility business service processing should be transparent to consumers of the published business service that calls them. General information about each utility business service is provided in this appendix. If you create custom published business services, you can use these predefined utilities, or you can copy a predefined utility business service into a new business service object, modify it, and call it from your new business service.